I got this comp " White Box Requiem for the Blue Corpse " . I like alot of the bands on it . What's the best Noise to check out for a noob ?

noise? Whitehouse, Merzbow, Kevin Drumm, and Hecker are all good ones...just recommendations from me...

also, check out this thread...it might help

http://www.radiomute.com/t3808-1.html

yeah , check the bands on this thread .

hey Kate, nice to see you posting in this section other than Introduce Yourself.

what is this "White Box Requiem for the Blue Corpse "?? I did a search on google and all I found is this guy jandek who plays an accoutic guitar and sings on his albums. I am not sure if that's the guy you were talking about...

anyway, what bands are on that compilation? if you can tell us, we probably can give you better recommandations.

The bands on the comp -
G.I.S.M
The Fall
Whitehouse
Discordance Axis
Six Finger Satellite
Inhumanity
Merzbow
Spazz
Naked City
Botch
Brighter Death Now
NEU
In Slaughter Natives
SPK
Nurse With Wound
Suicide
Masonna
Tortoise

Hecker is so weird and unpredictable it's great . Also Jeff Wrench's Brutum Fulmen and Yamaakago are really cool .

this link will take you to the track list of The Miracle Of Levitation compilation from gentle Giant records, but they went out of business in 2002...

http://www.japanimprov.com/yotomo/gr...o/miracle.html

here is a little description of that compilation:
Equisite and difficult music from the U.S. and Japan. Ambient soundscapes, densely textured constructions, and noise from: Ground Zero, Jim O'Rourke, Ruins, Melt-Banana, U.S. Maple, James Plotkin, Otomo Yoshihide, Akiyama-Sugimoto, liminal, Xome, Cult Junk Cafe, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Tsunoda Tsuguto, Pencilneck, 7000 Dying Rats, The Flying Luttenbachers, TV Pow, Lumbar Trio, Altered States, and Yasuhiro Ohtani.

but TV Pow is still around.

http://www.tvpow.net/purchase.htm

I have another one called Dissolved from Fifth Colvmn Records. that one is good too.

Kate, since you like nurse with wounds, you should check out brainwashed.com's 3-CD compilation.

http://www.brainwashed.com/recordings/catalogue.html

that compilation has

DISC A

Legendary Pink Dots, "Old Sparky" - [MP3]
V/Vm, "Cha-ha Meat skran-r the 15lb. Turkey" - [MP3]
Greater Than One, "Broadcast" - [MP3]
Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem, "Slicer Dubplate" (version 2) - [MP3]
Fridge, "Harmonics" - [MP3]
Ruby Falls, "The Brave Ones" - [MP3]
Panacea, "Battle Stations" (dub version) - [MP3]
m2, "I-tuo" - [MP3]
Jessica Bailiff, "Shadow" - [MP3]
Cyclobe, "Replaced by His Constellation" - [MP3]
Windy & Carl, "Trembling" - [MP3]
Christoph Heemann & Andreas Martin, "Wires" - [MP3]
Little Annie, "Lullaby" - [MP3]
Aranos & Nurse With Wound, "Mary Jane" (marbles remix) - [MP3]
Current 93 & Pantaleimon, "The Magical Bird in the Magical Woods" (unused mix from Sleep Has His House) - [MP3]

DISC B

Matmos, "You Can't Win" - [MP3]
Bedhead, "Powder" (live) - [MP3]
Meat Beat Manifesto, "Structures" (version) - [MP3]
Stars of the Lid, "Requiem for Dying Mothers" (version i, Zamachowski op. 87) - [MP3]
Diamanda Galas, "Birds of Death" (live in Toronto) - [MP3]
Gordon Mumma, "Stressed-Space Palindromes" - [MP3]
Volcano the Bear, "New Seeker" - [MP3]
Tino, "Vice Versa Dub" - [MP3]
Thighpaulsandra, "Heaven Lies About Us In Our Infancy" - [MP3]
Cex, "Ad Nauseam" - [MP3]
!!!, "Hammherhead" (TripleShotMonger mix) - [MP3]

DISC X [Brain -not- in The Wire]

I have one for sale if you want it.

actually, i don't know if you can find that comp anymore, I think it was limited